European Legal Studies

Dr. Hans Arno Petzold

Education

  • graduation (Abitur) 1974
  • volunteer German Armed Forces (presently Major [Res.])
  • law studies and practical phase in Hamburg, Second Examination 1984
  • doctorate of Law, Europa-Kolleg Hamburg

Professional career

  • graduate university assistant
  • attorney-at-law
  • legal adviser social health insurance
  • private secretary to State Prime Minister
  • manager Trade and Industry Federation
  • visiting lecturer Police Academy
  • director EU Information Office
  • since 2007 desk officer for EU economic issues, Internal Market, and State Aid Control, Ministry for Science, Economics, and Transport, State Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel

Areas of research

  • numerous publications in European Law and German Procedural Law

Courses taught at the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg

  • State Aid Practise in a German Federal State
  • Multi-level decision making and administration: State Aid Practice and Structural Funds